Khardung la one of the world's highest motorable passes.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

2009 the year that taught me a lot! Not necessarily about motorcycles , but life in general.

I haven't posted anything for sometime,but far from being at a stand still the "monster Dog Project" as it has been christened by the autocar India "Car and bike show" has been slowly but steadily progressing.

I know there might be some among you, who will say.. OK mate! but where is the supercharger and how fast does it go?All in good time guy's!

So will 2010 be Monster dog's fastest year yet? only time will tell...

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Well not really,but off late this does seem to divide most bikers in the Indian Royal enfield community and get them all riled up!

I have just replaced my Cast iron block with a aluminium one.

There are a couple of reasons for doing this.

First of all it happens to be much lighter than the stock block ,about 3.5 kg lighter in fact!

Since the supercharger weighs in at 7.7kg it will negate some of the weight added to the bike.

Secondly the heat dissipation will be better than stock.This is beneficial especially when supercharging, as for every Psi of boost used there is a increase in heat generated within the engine proportional to the efficiency of the supercharging system.

So in my case I haven't killed the old CI block, I have merely retired it for a bit.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Recently a friend of mine told me that there was some debate on how accurate the veypor really is and if it was incorrectly calibrated, could give incorrect velocity readings.

The fact is, if configured incorrectly, it could give you lower velocity readings,or higher depending on the wheel circumference fed into the veypor.

The veypor is very accurate, the actual tolerences or error factor can be checked online,this is not debatable.

Wwhat is debatable, is human error, either deliberate or by mistake.

I have never really bothered with what people think of me, those who know me know what I stand for, so in my case the former is out of the question.I am not building this bike as poser value, to boast or impress anybody.

The latter- human error is also not possible when you consider the method used to measure the circumference of the tyre, a stout wire inner cable wrapped around the centre of the front tyre and measured in mm to give the correct circumference.(this was rechecked several times to be sure).

I initially had the stock speedo mounted with the veypor to see the error factor on a brand new(just done 3000km)Tbird speedo.At 50kmh on the veypor the stock speedo registered around 60kmh, so with the correct ca liberation the veypor actually registered a slower velocity than the stock speedo.

Sunday, January 25, 2009

I decided to check out a beach we had visited a year ago, to see how suitable it would be to run the bike,so me, my wife and a friend rode down to the Konkan on our motorcycles.

The beach was good:Flat,long and realtively hard , allthough our bikes did tend to weave a little on the sand.

The local village poppulation might be another story,for some reason they did not seem too happy to hear or see us.

Anyway the hunt for a suitable place to test continues.

If anybody knows a suitable road around Pune in a 50km radius, I would be grateful for any information.Just remember it has to be a straight, fairly long (1km or >) ,flat road with a good surface and no people, dogs,buildings or traffic.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

No i will not be going for Rm but it sure has kept me busy these last few days tending customers bikes and last minute repairs.

In affect i was not even able to look at monster dog, let alone get some work done or ride.I was finally able to get the correct cable to download from my veypor, so i will now concentrate on gathering as much data form each run and using that information to better tune the bike.

The next thing is to look for a suitable place to test.The roads around here are too dangerous.the closest place to test is talegaon , but that was last year who knows what that road will be like now!

we are now thinking of testing on the beaches of the konkan, this would mean looking for a suitable hard packed,long,deserted beach.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

It's official! At 12 noon on the 14th of Jan 2009 on a test run to see how the Veypor functioned we clocked a 100mph or 161.8kmph on the veypor motorcycle computer.

The run started off slowly, i was'nt planning to open the throttle.I still had the stock speedo bolted on to see how inaccurate it is.I revved monster dog up past 3000rpm and suddenly decided to push the bike a little.The acceleration was instantanious and fast, before i knew it was blasting down the road. So used to the older albion 4 speed gearbox,i changed into 5th only after i began to slow down.

The run was fast but for the short distance and slow start i was not expecting the bike to hit a 100mph so easily.

I Dont have the correct cable to attach the veypor to my laptop and download the data as yet, so i have taken a picture of the screen.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Since I am dedicating a lot of time and effort into this project, the next logical step was to have a some sort of accurate data logging device to see how the motorcycle is running in real time.

The OE speedos are notoriously inaccurate and really tuning monster dog without any data would pose a problem in the long run.

The veypor VR2 is very ideal for someone like me, who has no access to a dyno and had to earlier rely on feel.This way any change made to the setup whether it is jetting, fuels,timing,gearing,tyres,riding posture etc would show up immediately on the veypor.

About Me

I am a anglo indian who looks like a phirang with a totally indian heart.I am married to my childhood sweetheart who shares my penchant for travel and is my companion in most of my travels.I run a Royal Enfield motorycle workshop in Pune and ride a 535cc enfield which incidentally is my vehicle of choice without which no journey is really complete.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson